August Update

Well, Leta and I have been busy riding again this month. On Saturday, August 14th we left Sioux City about noon and made it to the Husker Rally in Franklin Nebraska in time for the evening meal. We missed this rally last year and were happy to make it, even if for one evening. I had been pretty sick early in the week so I wasn't too excited about going, but Leta convinced me to go and I'm glad now we did. By that Sunday afternoon I was feeling 100% again. We picked up 9 more GLMC Grand Tour photos on the way home. We had about a 650 mile ride and the weather was great.

From BMW MC Night Rider's 2010 Husker Rally in Franklin Nebraska

The following weekend was Baxter Open House. Some things came up late in the week and I couldn't leave until Saturday morning. After a club breakfast at the Black Bear diner, I road down to Marne with my buddy Al. We had a nice ride. Rally attendance was really down this year (like most of the Rally's were this year). The weather was really difficult with temps near 100 and humidity almost as high. I hadn't planned on drinking any beer, but it was simply too hot not too. Blue Moon and Grain Belt Nordeast were served cold over a campfire (Kathleen T from Omaha's candle light formed our fire as we didn't have any wood). Jeff S. and I enjoyed some camp fire cigars and the Autobahn riders were there so we had a lot of fun camping. I also got to see Ryan and Stan, and the Sioux City garage builder crew of Kevin, Mark and Mike. We left early Sunday before the bike show because we could not handle another day of steaming hot weather.

From Baxter Open House - Marne IA - August 2010

Since Leta wasn't able to make it to the Baxter Rally we went for a ride Monday evening, August 23. We decided to pick up some more Ton's for the GLMC Grand Tour. We also got to ride a few miles with Prez Johnson and his wife Jan on their nightly scooter foray in Canton.


Great news!! Last night I finished repacking the muffler for my K1200RS (Dagmar) and took it over to Chuck's place. Chuck was been working on getting Dagmar all ready to ride again. I now have relatively new transmission, clutch, 55W HID low beam, brake fluid, coolant, front shock/spring, rear shock/spring, fuse block and ground block, new exhaust packing, and removed the carbon canister. I recently put on new tires and changed the oil. I got to ride Dagmar to work today and she is running great. I'm really excited about having her back and really appreciate everything Chuck did. It would have taken me forever or a lot of $s to do this done by myself.

From Frumps Roadside Blog

Photo of L and a Sunset

I got a new phone today (Droid X) and was saving my photos off my old phone. Found this one of L enjoying a beer in the beer tent in Redmond, OR at the BMW MOA National. During the day the beer seemed awfully good, as the temperature at the rally fluctuated from near 100 during the day, and about 40 at night. It was a dry heat though, yeah right.


I also snapped this one last evening of an incredible sunset as I was leaving HyVee. The cell phone camera really doesn't do it justice. It was raining off the the southwest (blurry red area in lower left). Had I only been out on the bike and had the Cannon S1 with the wide angle lense with me, hmmm.